Romanticism and the Rule of Law: Coleridge, Blake, and the Autonomous Reader

ISBN-13: 9783030748807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Mark L. Barr

Opis

This book frames British Romanticism as the artistic counterpart to a revolution in subjectivity occasioned by the rise of "The Rule of Law" and as a traumatic response to the challenges mounted against that ideal after the French Revolution. The bulk of this study focuses on Romantic literary replies to these events (primarily in the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Blake), but its latter stages also explore how Romantic poetry's construction of the autonomous reading subject continues to influence legal and literary critical reactions to two modern crises in the rule of law: European Fascism and the continuing instability of legal interpretive strategy.

Spis treści

1 Introduction

2 A Legal Genealogy of the Romantic Imagination

3 Coleridge’s Poetic Dispensation

4 Imagination and the Lyric Constitution

5 Blake’s Perpetual Revolution

6 The Gospel of Minute Particulars

7 Epilogue

O autorze

Mark L. Barr is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Blurb

This book frames British Romanticism as the artistic counterpart to a revolution in subjectivity occasioned by the rise of "The Rule of Law" and as a traumatic response to the challenges mounted against that ideal after the French Revolution. The bulk of this study focuses on Romantic literary replies to these events (primarily in the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Blake), but its latter stages also explore how Romantic poetry's construction of the autonomous reading subject continues to influence legal and literary critical reactions to two modern crises in the rule of law: European Fascism and the continuing instability of legal interpretive strategy.

Mark L. Barr is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.